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Clevinger (6-6) scattered one run, one hit and
two walks. He threw 63 of his 95 pitches for strikes. Relievers
Lane Ramsey and Tanner Banks followed with two innings of
one-hit, one-walk relief with three strikeouts.
Chicago out-hit Oakland 14-2. Tim Anderson, Andrew Benintendi,
and Andrew Vaughn had two hits each. Moncada collected his sixth
career four-hit game and first at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Anderson hit a leadoff double in the bottom of the first inning
and scored the game's first run on Vaughn's RBI single three
batters later.
Sharper base running might have prolonged the rally against
Oakland starter Paul Blackburn. Anderson merely jogged down the
first-base line on his hit, which eluded a diving attempt from
A's right fielder Seth Brown. Eloy Jimenez, meanwhile, was cut
down on the base paths after getting caught too far off second
base on Vaughn's hit.
Chicago capitalized on Oakland's defensive struggles to score
two runs in the third. A throwing error by third baseman Jordan
Diaz allowed Benintendi to score from first base on a Vaughn
single. Vaughn scored from third on a wild pitch later in the
inning.
The A's tallied their lone run in the sixth. Esteury Ruiz stole
second and third base after leading off the inning with a single
to left that spoiled Clevinger's no-hit bid. Ruiz joined
Atlanta's Ronald Acuna Jr. as the only players with at least 50
stolen bases this season before scoring on a Zack Gelof
sacrifice fly.
Blackburn (3-4) allowed four runs and nine hits in six innings
with two walks and six strikeouts.
Gavin Sheets had an RBI single in the bottom half of the sixth
inning to score Moncada, whose two-run double an inning later
accounted for the final margin.
Brown was ejected in the sixth.
--Field Level Media
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